Chelmer Ambulance Station Plan
Scott Emerson MP has brought to the community's attention the State Government's intention at some time in the future to build an ambulance station on the Corner of Oxley Road and Richardson Street, Chelmer.
In a response to a Question on Notice in Parliament from Mr Emerson, Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts said community consultation about the planned ambulance station would only occur “as part of the development approval process”.
Mr Emerson said he had met with the Queensland Ambulance Service which indicated it may not begin the DA process for the site on the corner of Oxley Rd and Richardson St for another five years.
“This arrogant decision by the Minister means locals will be left in a state of limbo, unsure about if and when an ambulance station will be built near them and their questions unanswered about why this site was chosen,” Mr Emerson said.
“While I support additional emergency services for this area, the State Government should be explaining to locals why it chose this site, whether it looked at other sites and how it will deal with the impact on locals from an ambulance station on a badly congested road, in a residential area and near schools and busy sporting facilities.”
Mr Emerson said the State Government secretly bought land at Chelmer earlier this year but only confirmed its intentions for the station after he revealed the Government’s plans.
“It is not good enough to leave the Chelmer and Graceville community in the dark. There needs to be genuine community consultation now, not in several years time,” he said.
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Have Your Say on Ambulance Station Plan - The Satellite 23-Sep
The Satellite newspaper 23-Sep-2009
The Chelmer and Graceville community will have the chance to question the State Government next month about a proposal to build an ambulance station on grid-locked Oxley Road.
Indooroopilly MP Scott Emerson said the State Government had agreed to his calls for community consultation after he raised concerns about the proposed station on the corner of Oxley Road and Richardson Street.
"This is a good first step especially after the stat government had previously indicated any consultation might not occur for up to five years as part of a development assessment process," he said.
Mr Emerson said the State Government secretly bought land at Chelmer earlier this year but only confirmed its intention to build a station after he revealed the government's plans.
Mr Emerson said he had met with senior Queensland Ambulance Service officers and they had agreed to hold a community meeting about the proposed station in October and would alert locals to the details shortly.
In the meantime, locals can contact the QAS on 365 1800 to discuss the proposed station.
Proposed Ambulance Station
I find it amusing how Scott Emerson is placing so much attention on the proposed ambulance station which pales into insignificance compared with the affect the Proposed Sherwood Bus Station and the Sherwood/Graceville Draft Neighbourhood Plan will have on the Character Suburbs of Chelmer/Graceville/Sherwood and Corinda. He has never attended any of the meetings held by the residents at the Corinda Bowls Club, The BCC Public Consultation Meeting on the 6th August, the public meeting held by the Sherwood State School P&C on the 15th August or the four BCC 'Information Meetings held recently at the Corinda Library. The constituents of these suburbs supported him at the last State election and now its his turn to support them. Scott has to take the bad stuff with the good stuff so he needs to step up to the plate and convince his colleagues in the LNP to get the Campbell Newman Administration to abandon these plans or else the constituents might abandon him at the next State election.
Ambulance station. fine with me.
I dont think the position of the ambulance station is a bad choice. Im in no position to comment about the traffic congestion on Oxley Rd I take it that the government has accessed this before they puchased the land. I was a little concerned that the first i heard of it was thru Scott Emerson. I just wish that the Qld Govenment talk to the locals first before making a final choice.
We are in a democracy and we can respond
If you read the report above, you'll find that the community is being given the chance to have their say.
It seems a lot of people are taking this, the bus depot, and the Local Area Plan as an announcement of what will happen, rather than announcements of proposals. And as we have seen, the community is taking the opportunity to comment on them - and these comments have already resulted in changes to proposals.